Federal regulators have reiterated findings that the Avista Corporation did not engage in improper trading in the energy crisis of 2000 and 2001. As a result, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's trial staff has asked a judge to approve an...

Federal investigators have now unearthed further evidence that market manipulation by energy companies played an important role in California's power crisis in 2000 and 2001. We have long known that clever trading strategies devised by companies like...

A federal administrative law judge recommended yesterday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission throw out a complaint contending that the El Paso Corporation, one of the nation's largest energy companies, manipulated natural gas prices during...

The pipeline unit of the El Paso Corporation appears to have violated federal rules by providing information that allowed its merchant energy affiliate to outbid rivals for capacity on a natural gas pipeline into California, a federal regulatory...

An administrative law judge mediating talks between the State of California and energy companies said today that the state was probably owed ''hundreds of millions of dollars'' in refunds, much less than the $8.9 billion it wants. The judge,...

The El Paso Corporation's chairman, William A. Wise, has been ordered back before a federal energy regulatory judge for the second phase of a hearing into whether the company manipulated California natural gas prices. Mr. Wise testified before an...

The El Paso Corporation's share of the Southern California natural gas market may be smaller than an energy agency study showed because the survey did not include in-state production, storage or competing pipelines, the study's author said today...

In testimony today, the chairman of the El Paso Corporation, William A. Wise, shed some light on a transaction that California officials say was used to drive up natural gas prices in the state. An administrative law judge, Curtis Wagner, has been...

Internal documents submitted as evidence that the El Paso Corporation artificially inflated natural gas prices in California suggest that the company did intend to manipulate prices, a judge hearing the case said today. One document, a...